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Art Specialist Course 2024 — 25 Graduation Exhibition at Hong Kong Visual Arts Centre

Art Specialist Course 2024 — 25 Graduation Exhibition /Nov 7 – 28, 2025 / Hong Kong Visual Arts Centre / Exhibition Hall, 5/F /7A Kennedy Road, Mid-Levels /Wednesday – Monday, 10am – 9pm / apo.com The Art Specialist Course 2024–25 Graduation Exhibition showcases the creative achievements of students from two courses: Drawing, Painting and Printmaking, and Sculpture, Body and Space. The exhibition features a wide range of artworks exploring both three-dimensional and two-dimensional visual arts. Students experiment with materials, forms, and space in their sculptures, expressing bodily experiences and emotions. Their paintings and prints move between realistic representation and abstract concepts, revealing personal reflections and artistic imagination. Each work reflects the dedication and development of the students in both skill and vision. The exhibition offers visitors the opportunity to experience how these students interpret the world around them through their unique creative voices. We warmly invite everyone to visit and appreciate the richness and diversity of these artworks. This exhibition not only celebrates the students’ hard work over the past year but also inspires all to see the …

Debe Sham 岑愷怡

Published by Ilaria Maria Sala

Park Solo /Hong Kong Visual Arts Centre /Mar 13 – Sep 16, 2024 / Debe Sham’s exhibition Park Solo, at the Hong Kong Visual Arts Centre, is spread throughout all five floors of this singularly shaped venue, and is best viewed by going down the stairs from the fifth floor all the way to the first – which opens onto Hong Kong Park’s children games precinct, a charming echo of some of the sculptures on display. The first works the visitor encounters on entering the building are Windmills (xx),a series of gold-plated, spiky, stainless-steel circles. “My inspiration for these comes from the colourful paper windmills people buy at temples during Lunar New Year for good fortune, called fongche. I find that this is a traditional Hong Kong shape that is quite overlooked. They are very characteristic and very beautiful,” says Sham. Like windmills, these golden, minimalistic fongche spin when touched or when the wind coming through the door is strong enough. As this first encounter makes clear, Sham’s practice is highly informed by play and …

Chen Tianzhuo, Chen Wei, Double Fly Art Center, Hu Weiyi, Lu Yang, Sun Xun, Carla Chan, Chris Cheung, Tang Kwok-hin, Morgan Wong

Published by Artomity Magazine

#You #Me #OurSELFIES Hong Kong Visual Arts Centre Hong Kong Jan 6 – 22, 2018 Valencia Tong The hashtag has changed the way we communicate in the digital age. In the exhibition One World Exposition 2.2: #YOU#ME#ourSELFIES at Hong Kong Visual Arts Centre, artists from mainland China and Hong Kong born in the 1980s and 90s show us how the language of technology, the internet and social media infiltrates the aesthetics of art. The title suggests a radical change in how art is experienced, especially by the millennial generation. Gone are the days when security guards in museums yelled “No photos”; instead, audience members are now encouraged to document their participation and interaction with the art works by generating content themselves, usually in the form of a selfie on social media, democratising the consumption of art across time and space. The exhibition showcases how media art can engage with contemporary issues through a selection of multidisciplinary works. Hu Weiyi’s The Raver compares our consumption and production of information to being strapped to electric chairs used during executions. We are forced to react incoherently to the bombardment of images, sounds and …